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The Lord will Fight For You
Do you ever just feel like you're trapped? Like life just is closing in on you, on both sides and you see no way out. Well, the Israelites felt trapped, too.
Exodus 14:13-14
Do you ever just feel like you’re trapped? Like life just is closing in on you, on both sides and you see no way out. Well, the Israelites felt trapped, too.
After being freed from slavery, God had led them, he led them all the way to the Red Sea, and they couldn’t go any further because the Red Sea was right there. They couldn’t cross it. They were okay until they saw Pharaoh’s army coming from behind. And there they were, coming to take them back into slavery and they were trapped. The Red Sea on one side, Pharaoh’s army and the other nowhere to turn. And so they panicked. They were afraid. What should we do? Maybe we should go back to Egypt. It was better there than dying out here. And yet Moses encouraged them to just be quiet, to just be still and wait patiently, he says. This from Exodus 14.
“Do not be afraid. Stand firm, and see the salvation from the Lord, which he will perform for you today. For the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you. You must wait quietly.” (Exodus 14:13-14)
The Israelites had nothing to fear. God was going to fight for them. God was going to part the Red Sea. And that’s what He did. He provided that path through so they could walk through and dry ground. And then, and then God fought for them again as he went and confused the army of Pharaoh. And eventually that army was washed away in the sea.
We feel trapped in our life sometimes. On one side, we see our sins, the sea of our sins. It’s there. We can’t go anywhere. We know we can’t save ourselves. We can’t cross over past them. The guilt weighs upon our hearts. And then behind us, we see the struggles, the struggles of this world that we endure, the hardships, the challenges of our life that sin throws at us every single day. And we feel trapped. We panic. We’re afraid.
But what Moses said to the Israelites, he says to us too. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid. The Lord will fight for you. And you know he has. When you look at that sea of our sins, you know that the cross of Jesus there he was fighting for you, to save you to part that sea and provide a way to salvation just for you. And we know that he will continue to fight for you every single day as he helps us through all the struggles, the challenges, the hardships that we endure in this life. And so he says to us, be still. Wait quietly. The Lord will fight for you. Amen.
